Plus cortisol directs the necessary energy to meet the
increased needs of your brain and muscles to respond to the stress.

Now, once the stressful event is over, your adrenaline level
drops pretty quickly, but cortisol remains high for a while to refuel your body
and bring it back to balance.

One way it does this is it gives you a huge appetite, hoping
that you'll replace whatever fat and carbs you used up during the
"crisis."

This reaction is fine if the stress you've just dealt with
is sudden or temporary and short-lived, but it’s a different story when people
have chronic stress, day in and day
out. With chronic stress, cortisol
levels rise and stay high.

This can cause you to "stress eat” because the cortisol
in your body is repeatedly telling you to refuel.

And you know what THAT means...your clothes start getting
tighter and tighter.

Chronic stress can also lead to an inflammation of the
stomach called gastritis.

Its symptoms are like acid reflux or an ulcer and can
include:

Burning or ache in your stomach

Loss of appetite

Bloating

Belching

Hiccups

Nausea and vomiting

Vomiting of blood

Dark stools

Inadequate digestion and absorption of nutrients

Feeling of extreme fullness after just a small amount of food

Antacids are usually prescribed for gastritis, but since
they inhibit your stomach acid production, and acids are needed for
proper protein digestion, they can make the underlying problem WORSE--not
better.

Plus gastritis can also lead to Vitamin B12 deficiency.

You see, your stomach produces a compound called intrinsic factor which binds to Vitamin
B12 so it can be absorbed in your intestines.
But with people with gastritis, intrinsic factor production can be
hampered...and their Vitamin B12 levels can plummet as a result.

3- Stress and your
intestines

Your brain and your intestinal tract are definitely
connected, and this brain-gut connection is very evident when it comes to
stress.

The "brain-gut
axis" is a network of chemical and electrical signals that
continuously pass between the central nervous system (the brain) and the
digestive system. It's such a close
relationship that some experts have even called the gut your second brain!

Since there's such a profound, close relationship between
the brain and the gut, chronic psychological
stress can make you very physically
sick.

For example, stress is a major factor in the emergence of
IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) symptoms and in the worsening of the symptoms of
colitis and Crohn's disease.

Stress also causes your gut to become hypersensitive, which
can contribute to food allergies and intolerances.

And there's another way that stress affects your gut--the
inner lining of your intestines.

Stress causes this protective mucosal barrier to become less
effective at defending your body against unfriendly bacteria and dangerous
pathogens.

That means that you are more susceptible to catching viruses
and infections when under chronic stress--your body literally cannot fight them
off as well.

How to fight back

First and foremost, it's important to try and eliminate as
much stress from your life as you can...but as we all know, many stresses are unavoidable.

So it's essential to give your body the help it needs to
counteract the effects of stress.

In addition to extremely helpful measures like exercise,
yoga, prayer, meditation and/or taking up a hobby, here are four ways you can
help your body fight back against stress:

1- Give your body natural adrenal support

Like I mentioned above, chronic stress can lead to severe
overtaxing of your adrenal glands and eventually adrenal burnout.

So it’s crucial to support the health of your adrenal glands
to help minimize the harm that stress can cause.

I explain the health dangers of the typical modern diet,
show you how to structure delicious meals that are much easier for your system
to digest and help nourish the friendly microbes in your gut, and even give you
a book of scrumptious recipes to try.

Believe me, you'll see there's nothing bland or boring about
eating for great health once you taste these recipes!

And it’s amazingly easy to do. Just making a few minor modifications to your
meals and incorporating more of the good stuff can make a tremendous difference
in how you feel FAST!

3- Help balance your gut flora

Although a healthy diet can help encourage a good gut flora
balance, since SO many other factors (like environmental toxins, medications,
lack of sleep and STRESS) can affect
your gut microbes, for many people, diet is not enough.

That's why supplementation with a good multi-strain
probiotic formula can help SO many people.

Fighting the effects of stress on your gut is yet another
great reason to take Super Shield
probiotic formula every day.

One of Super Shield's 13 superior bacteria strains,
Bifidobacteria lactis, has been shown to have high adhesion to human
mucus. That means it will stick to your
colon wall and keep it strong and protective.

In addition, Super Shield also contains Lactobacillus
rhamnosus. This strain has been shown to
stimulate antibody production and enhance phagocytosis, one of your body's
weapons for destroying dangerous invaders.

It also helps strengthen the gut-barrier function, and can
even have beneficial impact on autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid
arthritis and allergies.

4- Be sure your B12 levels are strong

It is estimated that as many as 3 out of 4 people have
Vitamin B12 levels that are either close to being low or are already
dangerously low.

And if you've had stress-related stomach problems, that
means you may not be absorbing nutrients (including B12) like you should,
and/or your stomach may be having trouble producing the intrinsic factor needed
for B12 absorption.

So that 3 out of 4 statistic just might include YOU.

The good news is that, just as a Vitamin B12 deficiency may be
“easy to get,” it's just as easy to help reverse it!

You just need to make sure that you get a potent form of B12
and that you help encourage easy absorption by your body.

Hydroxaden 2.5 is a convenient Vitamin B12 spray that gives
you a daily dose of a high-quality form of Vitamin B12 (hydroxocobalamin).
Hydroxocobalamin has been shown in certain studies to be very efficient
in raising B12 levels.

Just five sprays under your tongue each day gives you an
effective 2.5 mg. dose of B12 which can be absorbed through the mucus membranes
in your mouth.

This sublingual method of intake helps to sidestep any
problems associated with lacking the intrinsic
factor in the stomach that would be required to absorb B12 through the GI
tract…so it helps ensure that you’re actually getting B12 into your system!

The bottom line here is, stress is all around us and it's
not going away any time soon.

But when you support your body and help it fight the effects
of inevitable stress that we all face, you are taking giant steps toward keeping
your health strong no matter what stresses may come your way!

To your health,

Sherry Brescia

PS: Always be sure to let your doctor or healthcare provider know what supplements you are taking.